tree dc04d7c75eca3b4bd44dac8c6359525cb9a0f15a
parent 0d08e7bf0d0d1a29aff7b16ef516f7415eb1aa05
author Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> 1636224149 +0100
committer Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> 1636721377 +0000

ARM: 9156/1: drop cc-option fallbacks for architecture selection

Naresh and Antonio ran into a build failure with latest Debian
armhf compilers, with lots of output like

 tmp/ccY3nOAs.s:2215: Error: selected processor does not support `cpsid i' in ARM mode

As it turns out, $(cc-option) fails early here when the FPU is not
selected before CPU architecture is selected, as the compiler
option check runs before enabling -msoft-float, which causes
a problem when testing a target architecture level without an FPU:

cc1: error: '-mfloat-abi=hard': selected architecture lacks an FPU

Passing e.g. -march=armv6k+fp in place of -march=armv6k would avoid this
issue, but the fallback logic is already broken because all supported
compilers (gcc-5 and higher) are much more recent than these options,
and building with -march=armv5t as a fallback no longer works.

The best way forward that I see is to just remove all the checks, which
also has the nice side-effect of slightly improving the startup time for
'make'.

The -mtune=marvell-f option was apparently never supported by any mainline
compiler, and the custom Codesourcery gcc build that did support is
now too old to build kernels, so just use -mtune=xscale unconditionally
for those.

This should be safe to apply on all stable kernels, and will be required
in order to keep building them with gcc-11 and higher.

Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=996419

Reported-by: Antonio Terceiro <antonio.terceiro@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Tested-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
Tested-by: Klaus Kudielka <klaus.kudielka@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>